Evening Star Newspaper, May 27, 1937, Page 25

Washington News AUTO CLUB URGES - DISTRICT SET UP SINGLEROAD FUND Diversion of Tax on Motor- ists Hit by Keneipp at, Supply Bill Hearing. ASKS FEES BE PUT WITH GASOLINE LEVY Highway Program Involving Cost of $3,900,000 Proposed by Official. BY J. A. O'LEARY. Establishment of a single highway fund with a view to meeting all high- way and traffic appropriations from automobile revenues was urged by the Keystone Automobile Club of Wash- ington at today's hearing on the 1938 District supply bill. George E. Keneipp, manager of the club, said the present gasoline tax law, confined to expenditures for high- way and bridge improvements, is all right as far as it goes. He contended, however, that automobile registration, permit and title fees are just as defi- nitely special motor vehicle taxes. At present, these fees go into the District's general fund. He suggested that these motorist fees go into the proposed highway fund along with the gas tax. Citing figures to show the gas tax and other fees paid by motorists will greatly exceed the amount that would be spent under the House bill for high- ways and the Department of Ve- hicles and Traffic, Keneipp's organ- ization requested that the highway program for next year be brought up to about $3,900,000. He summed up the club’s position as follows: “The Keystone Automobile Club of Washington has always believed that es long as there is need for desir- able and necessary highway projects it seems entirely proper and fair to essess the expense of these projects against those who will benefit from their use. X Stand of Motorists. “For instance, it is our opinion that the motorists of the District would not object to an increase in the gasoline tax or the imposition of a weight tax, provided the revenue de- rived from these sources was to be used solely for those things which would help expedite the flow of traf- fic and promote greater safety on the streets. “Recently the director of highways, Capt. H. C. Whitehurst, submitted to the Engineer Commissioner for con- sideration a 5-year highway plan- ning program. This program embraced such projects as the redesigning of Thomas and Scott Circles to meet traffic needs, underpasses for street cars under Dupont and Thomas Circles, the construction of an ele- vated highway starting at Twenty- eighth and K streets, rising to suffi- clent height to provide a grade sepa- ration of K street and the Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway for through traffic, the construction of suitable safety islands, etc. “Reaction of an overwhelming ma- Jority of the motorists of the District was very favorable to these proposals. It is believed there would be little ob- Jection offered by motorists to paying slightly increased taxes if the increase would bring about completion of these desirable projects at an early date. Need for Improvements. “As long as there is great need for mprovements such as these, it seems indefensible to impose additional taxes on motorists to raise revenue for pur- poses in no way related to projects which are so badly needed in a city which is fast getting to the point where traffic congestion is almost un- bearable to motorist and pedestrian alike.” The Keystone Club also recom- mend restoration of a $6,000 item for school gardens and an appropriation to enable the traffic director to em- ploy extra help during the rush period of issuing annual license plates. Urges More Policemen. Calling attention to the ‘increase in trafic fatalities, Washington I. Cleve- 1and, manager of the District Motor Club of the A. A, A, urged that ad- ditional pelice be provided for full- time traffic duty. The A. A. A. spokesman also de- clared there should be no diversion of motor vehicle revenues for purposes other than construction and mainte- nance of streets and highways. He also requested elimination of House items that “would dip into the gaso- line fund for a number of non-highway expenditures.” “To meet the street and highway needs of the District,” Cleveland said, “it will be necessary to expend all of the funds that are raised through motor vehicle taxation. After expend- ing all available motor vehicle rev- enues for these purposes there will un- doubtedly still exist construction items of vital necessity. Accordingly the American Automobile Association re- iterates its firm conviction that there should be no diversion of motor vehicle revenues for purposes other than cop- struction and maintenance of streets and highways in the District of Co- lumbia.” Cites Need for Officers. Turning to the need for additional traffic officers, he said: “No amount of effort to reduce traf- fic accidents and to regulate the flow of traffic will be effective unless there is adequate law enforcement. The number of vehicles registered in the District continues to increase, the vol- ume of traffic flowing on our streets and highways is multiplying year oy year and 50 far this year the number of accidents and fatalities has in- creased by alarming proportions.” School Classes Sought. A plea for establishment of eight school classes in the western end of the city was made by spokesmen for a large group of organizations. Among those who presented the petition were Dorsey Hyde and Mr. and Mrs. Joseph R. Lyddane. ‘The House bill specifies that $8,000 be used for night school service in the western section, but did not increase the total allotment for night school expenses above this year's appropria- tion. The civic groups pointed out Mlmuhoolntwmm!mu‘!whpmm May Queen LOCAL GIRL OHIO COLLEGE CHOICE. ERMA GRAYCE WOODING, Daughter of Rev. Henry B. Wooding, pastor of Eckington Presbyterian Church, who was crowned twenty-seventh May Queen of Wooster (Ohio) Col- lege at recent ceremonies there. Miss Wooding, a grad- uate of Western High School, is a junior at the college. She is president of the student council and is the first girl to be both council head and May Queen at the same time. APPROVAL GIVEN AUDITORIUM SITE Fine Arts Commission In- dorses John Marshall Place Location. Holding its first meeting in its new quarters in the new Interior Depart- ment Building, the Fine Arts Com- mission today went on record as fa- voring construction of the proposed | Government auditorium on the east | side of John Marshall place, north of Constitution avenue and Third street. H. P. Caemmerer, executive secre- tary, explained the commission feels that the view of the District of Co- lumbia Federal Court Building should be kept open, as one of the land- marks of Washington. Accordingly, the commission reaffirmed its opin= fon that John Marshali place, north of Pennsylvania avenue, should be preserved as an open vista and not | in that location. the municipal architect, and C. Mar- shall Finnan, superintendent of the National Capital parks, who also is chairman of the Advisory Committee to the National Capital Auditorium Commission, established by Congress and headed by Secretary Ickes. Finnan Confers With Commission, Finnan conferred with the commis- sion regarding new street lights along Constitution avenue, near the Poto- mac River, which will follow the standard set in the area near the Sen- ate Office Building. Commission approval was given a model for a proposed medal to com- memorate the second Byrd Antarctic expedition. The model was submitted by the section of painting and sculp- ture of the Treasury Department and is the work of the New York scuptor, Heinz Warneke. Sketches for a proposed medal for the United States naval expeditionary forces in foreign lands were laid be- fore the commission and taken under consideration, Another proposed medal i8 being considered by the commission as the work of the Philadelphia sculp- tor, John R. Sinnock, for the Fleet Marine Corps Reserve, Arthur B. Heaton, Washington architect, submitted a design for erection of a furniture display build- ing at 4244 Connecticut avenue. This was approved by the commission. Submit Club House Plans. The National Park Service of the Interior Department submitted plans for a projected club house in Rock Creek Park, as well as the design for tablets to be placed on historic sites. William Marks Simpson of Balti- more conferred with the commission regarding the projected Antietam, Md., battlefield memorial coin. The commission gave further atten- tion to the proposal to plant hundreds of additional Japanese cherry trees in the Washington park svstem, particu- larly in the Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway and on Theodore Roosevelt and Columbia Islands. To make an effective floral display in the 8pring here, Dr. Charles Moore, the commis- slon’s chairman, who presided today, has advocateq the planting of for- sythia, magnolias, red bud, wisteris and other flowering shrubs and trees. LEGISLATOR IMPROVES Representative Ford Recovering From Appendicitis. Representative Ford of Missiasippi is recovering from an appendicitis op- eration at Naval Hospital. He became ill Tuesday while on the House floor and was taken to the hospital yesterday. BAND CONCERTS. By the Marine Band in the audie torilum at 11 am. tomorrow. Capt. Taylor Branson, leader; William P. Santelmann, assistant. By the Soldiers’ Home Band at the bandstand at 7 o'clock tonight. John 8. M. Zimmermann, bandmaster; Anton Pointner, assistant. ——— e or some other school in that vicinity, would serve a large area from Dupont Circle west, including Wesley Heights and Chevy Chase, as well as George- town. Charles 1. Stengle of the American PFederation of Government Employes urged elimination of the House rider that would deprive District per diem workers of sick and annual leave, by stipulating that they could be paid blocked by a new municipal building | It will so0 inform Nathan C. Wyeth, | he WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, MAY 27, 1937. THREE ASSISTANTS 10 CORPORATION COUNGEL TO QuIT H. D. Folsom, Raymond Sparks and_Rice Hooe to Leave 0ffi»ce. FOLSOM TO COMPLETE TRACTION VALUATION Successors Not Made Known, but Early Action on Matter Is Expected. 3 Reorganization of the office of the corporation counsel appeared probable today when it was learned that three of the assistant counsel are to resign to retwn to pri- vate pursuits. Heading the list is Hinman D. Fol- som, special as- sistant cor pora- tion counsel in charge of utility matters for the :Public Utilities omm ission as the representative of Corporation Counsel Elwood H. Seal. Folsom, who has been a vital cog in the District's legal machinery for two and a half years, has announced his intention to resign in order to take an extended va- cation. He will not terminate his service, however, until he has concluded the important valuation and rate case of the Capital Transit Co., now in prog- ress. The other two who are to leave Dis- trict service are Raymond Sparks, an assistant corporation counsel for seven years, whose resignation was forwarded today to the Commissioners, and Rice Hooe, now chief of the legal staff at Police Court. H. D. Folsom, Rice Hooe. Raymond Svarks. There have been rumors for some weeks that Hooe was to leave District service. According to reports at the District Building today, his resigna- tion is expected to be filed shortly. Bparks has been appointed a mem- ber of the staff of the law firm of Hewes, Prettyman & Awalt. Pretty- man formerly was corporation counsel and resigned about a year ago when the law firm was formed. Successors Unknown. There is no word at the District Building as to the successors of the three assistants, but action is expected in the near future. There may be a reassignment of some of Seal's as- sistants when the new men are ap- pointed, it was said. Folsom was appointed special assist- ant at $6,500 on October 5, 1934, However, he had served for several months prior to this as consultant to the Utilities Commission in brief- ing a mountain of evidence which had been taken that year in the valuation and rate cases of the Washington & Georgetown Gas Light Cos. Formerly he had served as assistant chief ex- aminer of the Bureau of Valuation of the Interstate Commerce Commis- sion. Folsom entered District service as successor to William A. Roberts, who had just been appointed people’s coun- sl before the Utilities Commission. His appointment was recommended by members of the commission and Prettyman. He is a Democrat and was active in politics in his earlier years. He is expected to go to Seattle, Wash, where he has relatives. He has not fixed the date of his de- parture because he has determined to conclude finally the transit company case and several cases pending in court before he leaves. Graduate of G. U. Sparks is a native of Washington and a graduate of Georgetown Uni- versity Law School. He was ap- pointed an assistant counsel during the regime of the late William W. Bride. Lately he has been engaged in prepa- ration of some of the District’s pro- posed new tax bills. Among his other duties, Sparks A serves as chairman of the board in charge of revocation and restoration of motorists’ permits. He also has served as an assistant to Folsom during the past two years. Hooe was appointed to the District service in December, 1934, and suc- ceéded Andrew M. Howsley as counsel to the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board. Later he was shifted to the Police Court assignment. His salary is $3,800 a year; the same as that of Sparks. Artificial Weather Used for Testing Asphalt Shingles The Buresu of Standards is manufacturing more nasty weather in a day than the Weather Bureau i able to pro- duce in weeks. It is all & part of the testing of mineral-surfaced asphalt shin- gles and the buresu is under- taking to produce a lifetime of weathering in short order. 8o far, the bureau has been able to produce all the effects of from 10 to 20 years of outdoor ex- posure in some-seven months of “accelerated weathering.” The tests are being conducted by H. R. 8noke and B. E. Gallup of the bureau’s chemistry division. A Man CLARK T0 SPEAK MEMORIAL DAY Final Arrangements Com- pleted for Service in Amphi- theater Sunday. Senator Clark of Missourl, one of | the founders of the American Legion, will be the speaker at the annual Memorial day services in the amphi- theater at Arlington Memorial Ceme- tery at 12:30 p.m. Sunday, it was an- nounced today. Final arrangements for the observ- | ance were completed at & meeting of |the G. A. R. Memorial Day Corp., | composed of rep- resentatives of more that 100 | veterans’ organi- | zations and their | affiliated bodies, | held last night in | the auditorium of | the Chamber of Commerce Build- ing. The services in the amphitheater will last one hour and will be broad- cast over a Na- tion-wide net- work, including all local radio stations, it was an- nounced by the corporation. The pro- gram will include solos by Mary Fer- guson Koontz, formerly of the Cin- cinnati Civic Opera Co., and Frank K. Sanderson. & Flower Gifts Acceptable. ‘Washingtonians who wish to con- tribute fresh-cut flowers to be used in decorating the graves of the soldier dead in Arlington National Cemetery are asked to leave the flowers at any police station or fire house in the Dis- trict Saturday. These flowers will be collected and taken to Arlington to be placed on the graves by 300 Boy Scouts under the direction of Col. E. L. Matice, scoutmaster for the Dis- trict. Contributions also are being taken up in the local Government depart- ments and public buildings to pur- chase flags, which also will be placed on the graves. Members of the Ameri- can Legion Auxiliary of the District of Columbia Department will place on the graves of World War dead a replica of the red poppy of France, Other Services Scheduled. Other memorial services have been scheduled by the corporation for to- morrow and Saturday as follows: Tomorrow—12 o'clock noon, rotunda of the Bureau of Engraving and Print- ing, services sponsored by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing Post, American Legion; 6 p.m., Cedar Hill Cemetery, services sponsored by the Tanks Corps Post, American Legion, and 8:15 pm., Washington Hebrew Congregation, Eighth Street Temple, sponsored by the Jewish War Vet- erans, including a sermon by Rabbi Abram Simon and display of eolors of veteran organizations. Saturday—3 p.m., Holy Rood and Cedar Hill Cemeteries, Gen. M. Em- mitt Urell Camp, United Spanish War Veterans; 3 p.m., Mount Zion and Unifon Cemeteries, James Reese Europe Post and Auxiliary, American Legion; 3 p.m,, Sixteenth street mark- ers, American Gold Star Mothers and the American War Mothers; 5 p.m., Holy Rood and Oek Hill Cemeteries, William B. Cushing Camp, Sons of Union Veterans; 5:30 p.m., grave of Jane Delano, Arlington National Cemetery, Jane Delano Post, Ameri- can Legion; 6:30 pm, Memorial Monument to Nurses of the Civil War, Connecticut and Rhode Island ayenues, Women's Relief Corps, G. A. R, and 6:30 p.m. Sisters’ Monu- ment, Women's Relief Corps. There also will be services at 3:15 pm. Monday in Battleground Ceme- tery, Brightwood, sponsored jointly by the G. A. R, the Daughters of Union Veterans and the Brightwood Citizens’ Association. . D. C. TAX PLAN HIT The tax program proposed by the District Commissioners was attacked today in a statement by Works Prog- ress Lodge, No. 139, American Federa- tion of Government Employes, which described it as “one of the frankest attempts on record to make the low- salaried Government employes and other workers in the District carry the burden of local government.” “In their great haste to produce a ‘sure-fire’ source of revenue, the Com= missionérs have very convenlently tossed overboard all consideration of Senator Clark. Thomas Jordon, condemned to die for the murder of Mrs. Lizzie Jaynes, in the Garden T-Shoppe hold-up, tries to for- get the slowly passing hours by writing to friends fighting to save his life. WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION bening Stap FH¥F 'Waits for Neath Where Minutes Pass Like Days Calm resignation terday as he awaits pardon attorney. Man Delivering Phone to Home Of Lost Boy Takes Him Along A frantic mother who had lost her 3-year-old son got a lot of service last night when she asked for an emergency installation of a telephone in her home, ! 18 Channing street. ! The lineman sent out by the com- pany not only delivered a telephone to Mrs. Thomas Baker, but shortly after- ward managed to deliver her mlssing‘ son. Philip, as well. | All of which solved only half of the | missing child problem at No. 9 pre- cinct. It seems there were two lost 3-year-olds in the precinct, both light- haired, brown-eyed and dressed in blue. Raymond Vermillion, the other mis- | sing boy, had wandered away from his | home at 1694 Kramer street northeast, | and was picked up by a policeman at | Fourteenth and F streets northeast. Raymond was delivered to the pre- | cinct, which had just been notified of Philip's disappearance. Raymond ex- | plained, “I wanna go fishin’,” but failed to add his name wasn't Philip | Baker. awaits him is portrayed in this close- up photograph of Jordan taken yes- to whatever fate verdict of Federal from the k2 JORDON INQUIRY Police notified Mrs. Baker, whbJ hurried to the precinct. The mother was dismayed to find herself confront- ing a strange little boy. Raymond was a bit chubby. Philip was slimmer, his mother said. | Mrs. Baker returned home in dis- | appointment and anxiety to ask the | telephone company ¢o put an instru- | ment in her home at once. Lineman William Hoofnagle was dispatched to the home. Hoofnagle got the new telephone to | working and left. In the home he had seen a picture of the missing Philip. As he drove along he saw a small boy who looked decidedly lost. Sure enough, the boy was Philip. Hoofnagle returned the boy to his mother. Meanwhile, Raymond was sent to the Receiving Home for Children, where his parents found him last night. Incidentally, Hoofnagle was able to report that the Bakers have decided | to keep their emergency telephone. TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS CAUSE INJURY OF 7 Boy, 7, May Have Fractured | Skull—Driver Held on Permit Charge. Two children and five adults were injured in traffic accidents last night. Paul Posner, 7, of 1114 Penn street northeast, suffered brain concussion and possibly a fracture of the i skull when struck near his home by & n automobile driven, police said, by Edward Talbott, 34, of the 1400 block of Water streét southeast. Tal- bott was charged with driving without a District driver’s per- mit. Paul is in T4 Casualty Hospital. i Ronald Shoop, ~ Mensld Sheo. 4, of 218 Bates street, recetved severe scalp lacerations, police reported, when knocked down in front of his home by an automobile driven by Lester I. Gilmore, 41, of 1216-A Q street. He is in 8ibley Hospital. Trafic Bureau Policeman J. W. Adams, 31, suffered leg injuries when his motor cycle skidded and threw him while he was responding to an emergency call at First and C streets northeast. He is in Cacualty Hospital. Adams was at the ninth precinct when & report that a woman was screaming at First and C streets was received. The woman was not located. William L. Thoma, 22, of 727 Sev- enth street southwest, and Beatrice Huffman, 19, of 1223 G street south- east, suffered leg injuries when they were thrown from a motor cycle at Eighth and G streets southwest fol- lowing a collision with a taxicab. Po- lice said the cab was driven by Max Harris, 31, of 124 C street northeast. Miss Hoffman's left leg was fractured. ‘Thoma was treated for severe cuts. George Stalcup, sr., 57, and his son, George, jr., Brentwood, Md., were in- Jjured when their car was in collision with an automobile driven by Martin C. Bradford, 37, Baltimore, at Fourth street and New York avenue northe east. Bradford was charged with reck- less driving. The elder Stalcup was treated at Sibley Hospital for severe neck lacerations. His condition is undetermined. BOYS TO SEE NATS Bchoolboy Safety Patrol to Be Guests of Griffith. Five thousand schoolboy patrolmen are to see the Washington-Chicago base ball game this afternoon as guests of Clark Griffith. In the seven previous times the patrolmen have attended a game as Griffith’s guests they have yet to see the Nats come out on the short end of the score. g The patrolmen units, sponsored in the schools by the American Automo- bile Association, are coming to the game from the District and the im- : -mn'?flnng_:m - medistely swrounding m. TREASURY GUARDS MAY GAIN SERVICE Chief Studies Proposal to Enroll Men in Secret Division. Plans for placing the Treasury guard service under the Secret Service division are being studied by Frank J. Wilson, chief of the division, on orders from Treasury Secretary Morgenthau. The uniformed guards, stationed about the Treasury Building, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, Procure- ment Division and other Treasury buildings here, are under the chief clerk of the Treasury now. There are 139 of these officers. Treasury officials said today that if the plan with respect to guards here works out satisfactorily, consideration will be given later to inclusion of guards at the Philadelphia, Denver and San Francisco mints and at the gold depository at Fort Knox, Ky. It was explained the plan is ex- pected to result in economies and in- creased efficlency. The guard force could be called on in emergency to supplement the regular force of about 200 agents. . The White House police were placed under the Secret Service several years ago. There are 60 officers in the White House detail. The Secret Service is urgently in need of more agents, due to a 50 per cent increase in work registered dur- ing the past year, according to Chief Wilson. Much of this added work is due to the widespread distribution of Government checks to persons on re- liet rolls. Frauds involving these checks are investigated by the Secret Service. A total of 2,182 cases of forgery of Government checks was received from July 1 to December 1 of last year, he told Congress recently. MILHENNY RITES PLANNED TOMORROW Retired Gas Company Official Is to Be Buried in Rock Creek Cemetery. Funeral services for James Smith McIlhenny, 72, retired chief engineer of the Washington Gas Light Co. and former member of its Board of Direc- tors, will be held tomorrow at 1 p.m. at Hysong's undertaking establish- ment, 1300 N street, with-the Rev. |there. Dr. Howard 8. Wilkinson, rector of St. Thomas Episcopal Church, offici= ating. Burial will be in Rock Creek Cemetery. Mr. Mcllhenny, who deid Tues- day night at Birmingham, Ala., had lived here with his daughter and son- in-law, Lieut. Col. and Mrs. C. B. Cates, 3325 Quebec place. Born in Montgomery, Ala., Mr. Mc- Tlhenny became affilliated with the gsas light company in 1880. Although he was a graduate of the Medical 8chool of old Columbian College, now George Washington University, he never practiced. In addition to his daughter he is survived by s brother, Dr. George A. MeIlhenny, Forrest, Miss.; a daugh- te-in-law, Mrs. George McIlhenny of this eify, and two grendchildren. “Black queen on red king and turn up the ace of spades * * *.” In the loneli- ness of long waiting, Jordan toys with solitaire as he seeks to distract his mind fate which may await him. —Star Staff Photos. REPORT AWAITED Attorney General to Pass on Conviction in Jaynes Murder Case. Attorney General Cummings ex- pects to receive “at any time now” from the Justice Department’'s pardon attorney a report which may mean life or death to Thomas Jordon, con- victed slayer of Mrs. Lizzie S. Jaynes. ‘The pardon attorney, Daniel M. Lyons, discussed the case for more than two hours yesterday afternoon with a House subcommittee appointed to study crime conditions in Wash- ington. After the conference Representative Bates, Republican, of Massachusetts, & member of the subcommittee, ex- pressed to reporters his ‘‘personal opinion” that local police “bungled” the murder investigation. He charged they “neglected” to interview several eyewitnesses to the crime. Thorough Inquiry Assured. Representative Palmisano, Demo- crat, of Maryland, chairman of the subcommittee, and Representative Bigelow, Democrat, of Ohio, other members, said they were confident the Department of Justice is making & thorough inquiry with a view to seeing, that justice ..evails. The committeemen said they pr sented to Lyons their “personal view: regarding the prosecution of Jordon. They declined to reveal what these views were, explaining they planned to put them in writing and submit them formally to the pardon attorney. The House group became interested in the case after charges had been made that evidence favorable to Jordon had been “suppressed.” This evidence included a police “incidental” describing the slayers of Mrs. Jaynes at the Garden T Shoppe as men 6 feet tall. Jordon, who is of less than average height, confessed to the | murder, but later repudiated the con- fession. Evidence to Be Sumbitted. Chairman Palmisano said the com- mittee presented nothing in writing to Lyons, but Bates reminded the chair- man that the committee had au- thorized him to turn over to Lyons all evidence it had collected in study- ing the Jordon matter. He said this would be done today. Cummings ordered the case re- opened recently after attention of the White House had been called to the police incidental. President Roosevelt ordered Jordon’s electrocution stayed until June 14, so that a thorough study of all angles of the puzzling crime could be probed. — CATHEDRAL TO HOLD BODY OF WAR FLYER Remains of Norman Prince Will Rest in Memorial Chapel Built by Parents. The body of Norman Prince, Amer- ican World War aviator killed on the Western front in 1916, will be re- ceived at Washington Cathedral on ‘Tuesday. This announcement was author- ized today by Cathedral officers, who confirmed reports from New York that the body is on board the French liner Normandie, scheduled to reach port Monday. Prince was one of the founders of the famous Lafayette Escadrille. He originally was buried in the Pro- Cathedral in Paris, but his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick H. Prince, gave the beautiful Chapel of 8t. John at Washington Cathedral in his mem- ory, and now he is to be entombed Cathedral officials said no ar- rangements have been made as yet for the service of dedication or the rites of sepulture. An announce- ment, they indicated, would be made within a few days. Slugged and Robbed of $13. BETHESDA, Md., May 27 (Spe- cial) —Robert Smith, who lives on the Conduit road about a mile north of the District line, was slugged and robbed of $13 by a colored man who got off the Cabin John street car with him at stop No. 28, he told police last night. Smith said he was uncon- scious for several hours after the at- tack and would recognize his as- sailant, . Society and General PAGE B—I CHICKEN KILLNG IN DISTRICT MAY REQURE LIGENSE Hundreds of Places Reveiled by Study of Nuisance Industries. SANITARY CONTROL NEED IS EMPHASIZED Dr. Ashworth, Food Inspection Director, and Dr. Ruhland, Health Officer, Active. Independent of the King-Norton bill aimed at protecting Washington from various types of “nuisance” ine dustries, the District Health Departe ment announced today it is conteme plating a new regulation to license all chicken-killing places in the Dis= trict, with a view to bringing such premises under more adequate sanie tary control. The number of small neighborhood grocery stores and markets where chickens are killed daily on the premises—usually in a rear room or a back-yard shed—was estimated in the hundreds today by Dr. R. R. Ash- worth, director of the food inspection service. “These are the worst offenders™ Dr. Ashworth said. “We have been working on this situation for the last two months and are ‘cracking down’ on many of these back-room killing places, forcing some of them for health reasons to build separate places or provide more sanitary measures.” Aside from the four principal cen- ters where many thousands of chickens are killled for the market daily un- der close inspection and are handled scientifically, officials admitted the city is spotted with hundreds of other places where small numbers of fowls are slaughtered on premises next door to residences or small apartments. Attention was focused on these lite tle publicized operations during ree cent hearings before the Senate Dise trict subcommittee on the anti-nuie sance bill. Health Officer Interested. It was learned, however, that Dr, George C. Ruhland, District health officer, began giving the chicken-kil~ ling places serious attention some two months ago with a view to cleaning up a situation which is regarded as not only undesirable, but “obnoxious,” in many sections of the city. “The ideal way to handle the situa- tion is to confine all chicken killing in the city to two or three large cen- ters,” Dr. Ruhland said. “We are trying to work out a way to eliminate the little places where the chickens are killed in the rear rooms of prem- ises, but it is a difficult problem to control.” Some of the largest poultry pro ducers, who individually provide from 15,000 to 25000 birds a week to Washington markets, are voluntarily co-operating with a committee in the Food Inspection Service to draw up an effective licensing regulation. There are approximately 4,000 food places in the District that operate under licenses, officials said, but sep- arate licenses are not now required for the killing of chickens. Richard J. Clements, who is ase signed to the inspection of chickens, has been bearing down of late on small grocers and market men wha (See SLAUGHTER HOUSE, Page B-6,) HOUSE GETS $43,000 BRIDGE FUND PLEA Added Money Sought for In. creased Costs of Chain Bridge. The House today received two sup- plemental estimates of appropriations from the Budget Bureau. One of these is for $43,000 to meet the increased cost of construction at Chain Bridge and the other is for $5,300 to meet the expenses of sending the Marine Band to the United Confederate Veterans' reunion at Jackson, Miss., on July 9. The District appropriation act for 1937 provides an appropriation of $250,000 from the gasoline tax fund for replacement of Chain Bridge and authorizes the Commissioners to enter into contracts for completion of the bridge at & cost of $350,000. The Dis« trict budget for 1938, now pending before the Senate committee, carries a provision for the remaining $100,000 authorized by the limit of cost. The low bid on this project is $342.- 529, in addition to which there are incidental expenses covering plans, approach road work, etc. The in- creased cost over the original estimate is said to be due to the increased cost of steel. It is, therefore, recommended that the present limit of cost be in- creased from $350,000 to $393,000 and the pending proposal in the District budget be increased from $100,000 to $143,000. REGULATIONS URGED FOR MARITIME LABOR By the Associated Press. Delegate Samuel W. King of Hawaii and William 8. Culbertson, represent- ing the S8an Francisco Chamber of Commerce, advocated for maritime 1abor today regulation similar to that set up in the national railway labor act for railroad workers. “The territory of Hawaii,” King told the House Merchant Marine Com- mittee, “can’t survive long if shipping is cut off. During the Pacific Coast strike of last Fall and Winter it was touch and go whether we would get by.” Declaring the entire commerce of the San Francisco Bay area was “very greatly crippled” by the long strike, Culbertson said that at least on the West Coast maritime labor was suffi- clently well organized for machinery similar to that provided by the railwey labor act fo-function satistastorily. »